The effects of open innovation activity on performance of SMEs: the case of Korea

Kim, Hyuk Joon; Park, Yongtae

doi:10.1504/ijtm.2010.035975

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“…First, a multi-industry approach was preferred, because our aim was to move beyond the prevalent focus on high-tech industries (Van De Vrande et al, 2010). Second, we selected SMEs as they have been largely overlooked in this research field (Huizingh, 2011), despite the fact that they rely to a great extent on inflows and outflows of knowledge to sustain innovation (Bierly and Daly, 2007) and seem to utilise them differently from larger firms (Kim and Park, 2010). Third, we considered the R&D or innovation managers as the most appropriate informants for our survey because of their expertise to make informed assessments about internal 1252 BPMJ 23,6 innovation endeavours, as well as about practices related to knowledge in-sourcing and out-sourcing.…”

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The role of employee autonomy for open innovation performance

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Knudsen

Søndergaard

2017

BPMJ

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Design/methodology/approach -The study reports the results of mediation analyses conducted on the basis of survey data from 307 firms. Findings -The economic benefits of both inbound and outbound OI are fully captured only if firms provide employees with time, freedom and independence. The results show that employee autonomy fully mediates the relationship between openness and innovation sales, while the adoption of inbound OI is positively associated with the introduction of new products. Practical implications -The opening of innovation induces managers to provide employees with discretion, as OI requires high levels of flexibility and experimentation. Originality/value -The paper addresses theoretically and empirically the role of job design in the implementation of OI, while also distinguishing between the effects of inbound and outbound practices on innovation performance.

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The role of employee autonomy for open innovation performance

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Knudsen

Søndergaard

2017

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“…Tim et al (2005) noted that the network relationship binding small business and innovation contact has some controversial [14]. Kim & Park (2010) found that not all SMEs' open innovation activities have a positive impact on innovation output through the empirical research on SMEs [15]. Rosenbusch et al (2011) pointed out that the internal innovation projects leaded to better business performance than innovative projects cooperated with external partners, and focusing on external cooperation in innovation projects could not increase small businesses performance.…”

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The Review of SMEs Open Innovation Performance

Zhang¹,

Chen²

2014

AJIBM

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Open innovation has provided more opportunities and broader space for Small-and Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs for short) in innovative practices, but also brought new challenges to SMEs. Focusing on the performance of SMEs in open innovation, this paper conducts a literature commentary from several aspects including innovation performance, constraints, impact and strategy of improving open innovation performance of SMEs on the basis of systematic domestic and foreign literature review. The paper also points out the direction for future research.

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“…But, in today's rapidly-changing business context with technology convergence among various fields, firms are facing a big difficulty in developing new technology and successfully commercializing it in their market [2]. Especially, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are confronted with a bigger difficulty in making technology innovation by lack of their inner capabilities and resources essential for technology development [3].…”

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An empirical analysis of the influence of external knowledge network on SMEs' new technology development and technology commercialization capabilities in the perspective of open innovation

Hau¹

2016

Journal of Digital Convergence

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In today's rapidly-changing business context with technology convergence among various fields, new technology development and technology commercialization capabilities are very important to the survival and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study develops the research model based on the open innovation perspective and empirically tests it by using 2,000 data from SMEs in South Korea. The empirical analysis result reveals that SMEs' external technology collaboration network and external information network diversities have positive effects on their technology commercialization capability, and these effects are fully mediated by their new technology development capability. Based on these results, the study provides meaningful implications especially in terms of SMEs' managers who pursue entrepreneurship.

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The effects of open innovation activity on performance of SMEs: the case of Korea

Cited by 86 publications

References 24 publications

The role of employee autonomy for open innovation performance

The role of employee autonomy for open innovation performance

The Review of SMEs Open Innovation Performance

An empirical analysis of the influence of external knowledge network on SMEs' new technology development and technology commercialization capabilities in the perspective of open innovation

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